Been thinking a lot lately about all the things I’ll never experience again…

Just all the little things you thought would always just be there until they… weren’t anymore.

I’ll never walk into a book shop and be excited to smell that distinctive new book smell, because the binding glue doesn’t smell the same now.

I won’t probably ever feel the exact sensation of putting my finger in the hole of a rotary dial phone and pulling it around to dial the number.

I won’t ever lie in a field, grass tickling through my hair, talking to friends about nothing.

I may not ever again spin a vinyl record between two palms to flip it to the other side and drop it back on the spike, or lift the arm of the needle.

What are the very specific small things you’ll miss?

ETA: there's some great and very specific replies on this thread, I am loving seeing what were other people's 'madeleines'.

But there's also a decent number of people who seem to think I was posting in the spirit of 'the past was great; the present is terrible, I hate my life, waaaahh!' To these I'd just like to say, um, that's really not it. I wouldn't go back. I don't want to wallow in nostalgia 24/7. I just found it interesting to think that there are certain physical sensations I may never know again. I'm probably not that bothered about it that I'm going to go on ebay and buy a vintage rotary phone now.

But just to add, the specific pressure under my finger when I eject a floppy disc.

The library in the town where I grew up, which had cork tiling on the floors AND walls, which smelled very particular and which squeaked under your shoes.

The exact way the light came in through the window in the library's art exhibition room (and the B&W photos of the skateboarder at school I had a crush on, that were showing there).

My grandmother's treacle soda bread with raisin in it.

As I said to someone further downstream, some of these memories people are sharing here are bittersweet, but bittersweet is still part of the sweetness of life. Remembering the past doesn't mean rejecting the future.